[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 9, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61415-61416]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-24758]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30-Day-13-12QI]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments
to CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC or
by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
EHS-Net National Voluntary Environmental Assessment Information
System (NVEAIS)--New--National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH),
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The CDC is requesting OMB approval for a National Voluntary
Environmental Assessment Information System to collect data from
foodborne illness outbreak environmental assessments routinely
conducted by local, state, territorial, or tribal food safety programs
during outbreak investigations. Environmental assessment data are not
currently collected at the national level. The data reported through
this information system will provide timely data on the causes of
outbreaks, including environmental factors associated with outbreaks,
and are essential to environmental public health regulators' efforts to
respond more effectively to outbreaks and prevent future, similar
outbreaks.
The information system was developed by the Environmental Health
Specialists Network (EHS-Net), a collaborative project of federal and
state public health agencies. The EHS-Net has developed a standardized
instrument for reporting data relevant to foodborne illness outbreak
environmental assessments.
State, local, tribal, and territorial food safety programs are the
respondents for this data collection. Although it is not possible to
determine how many programs will choose to participate, as NVEAIS is
voluntary, the maximum potential number of program respondents is
approximately 3,000.
These programs will be reporting data on outbreaks, not their
programs or personnel. It is not possible to determine exactly how many
outbreaks will occur in the future, nor where they will occur. However,
we can estimate, based on existing data, that a maximum of 1,400
foodborne illness outbreaks will occur annually. Only programs in the
jurisdictions in which these outbreaks occur would report to NVEAIS.
Consequently, we have based our respondent burden estimate on the
number of outbreaks likely to occur each year. Assuming each outbreak
occurs in a different jurisdiction, there will be one respondent per
outbreak.
There are three activities associated with NVEAIS that require a
burden estimate. The first activity is the manager interview that will
be conducted at each establishment associated with an outbreak. Most
outbreaks are associated with only one establishment; however, some are
associated with multiple
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establishments. We estimate that a maximum average of 4 manager
interviews will be conducted per outbreak. Each interview will take
about 20 minutes.
The second activity is entering all requested environmental
assessment data into NVEAIS. This will be done once for each outbreak.
This will take approximately 2 hours per outbreak.
Additionally, all food safety program personnel participating in
NVEAIS will also have to take training on how to conduct environmental
assessments, how to enter data into NVEAIS, and how to conduct the
manager interview. We estimate the burden of this training to be a
maximum of 12 hours. Respondents will only have to take this training
one time. Assuming a maximum number of outbreaks of 1,400, the
estimated burden for this training is 16,800.
The total estimated annual burden is 21,467 hours (see Table).
There is no cost to the respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Responses per burden per
Type of respondent Form name respondents respondent response (in
hours)
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Food safety program personnel......... Manager interview....... 1,400 4 20/60
Food safety program personnel......... NVEAIS Data Reporting 1,400 1 2
Instrument.
Food safety program personnel (No form Food safety program 1,400 1 12
used). personnel training.
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Dated: October 2, 2012.
Ron A. Otten,
Director, Office of Scientific Integrity (OSI), Office of the Associate
Director for Science (OADS), Office of the Director, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2012-24758 Filed 10-5-12; 8:45 am]
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